Oh, the other Americans are gonna have to face the music eventually too. I just never had any issue with foreign cultures to begin with. I was the kind of kid who was on web forums in the early aughts saying "don't judge the guy for his grammar, he might not be a native speaker, you don't know that". And that was before I learned of the concept of a dialect. So I'm just overall tired of dealing with this sort of childish "my culture good their culture bad" thinking that nobody seems to have grown out of.
But, you know, I have a very special beef with englishmen, because every time I was like "oh hey have you heard of biscuits and gravy" they'd be like "no wonder Americans are so fat" immediately, without second thought, and refuse to listen to the clarification about what a biscuit is (this was before I knew a British scone was basically an American biscuit but richer and sweet).
And, I mean, it's all superficial and silly until you remember what happens when someone dares to fiddle with European food and make it their own. Masala Chai, Vietnamese Banh Mi, Philipino Spaghetti, all these innovations were met with by violence from the colonizers. Couldn't let people just enjoy their own things.
But it's gonna be different this time. When America's empire falls, there will be no western power to take its place. The era of global western hegemony is finally coming to an end.
Let me be absolutely clear.
Y'ALL classist assholes can go fuck y'all's selves. Ain't nobody has no right to decide what words mean what, no matter how many dictionary companies y'all buy out. Language has no fecking rules. None. It's completely artificial and it evolves over time, but y'all motherfuckers can't be fecked to learn an ounce of linguistics.
Go right to hell, dipshit.
very thick If you can afford it. In the old days lean years meant thin gravy
Texturally, they're a nightmare
I'll forgive you just this once. It may take some getting used to but it has no equal
Mmm, that's how I make my sausage gravy. Got made fun of by an Appalachian guy for it being like concrete but hey, why not if you've got the meat, right?
It doesn't work with the joke though: Americans use the word "pudding" to refer to something sweet while Brits use the word "biscuit" to refer to something sweet. Fries aren't sweet in either of the two opposing dialects. So both should be able to see the appeal
I think I've seen chorizo poutine as an option the one time I visited Canada, in Niagara falls I believe it was. But I only had time to try the classic, and also I can't remember if it was Mexican style chorizo or Spanish style chorizo or something else
The English word "Sherbert" and the bangla word "Sharbat" derive from a common linguistic ancestor from before the indo-european split. One word refers to flavored ice, and another refers to a cold, sweet drink.
Odds are, neither one is the same as the original proto-indo-european refreshment that they derived from. When a people goes to a new place, they take their tastes with them and apply them to what's available to them there.
Words, too, change meaning over time. It's just the way things go. Nothing stays the same. Cultures drift, and people evolve.
What I call a biscuit may be closer to what you call a scone, and white gravy may be an abomination to your eyes, but it is just as cherished to me as Yorkshire pudding and brown gravy likely is to you.
And hell, y'all's empire fell to pieces long ago. The time is coming where y'all're gonna have to start engaging with cultures other than y'all's own as equals instead of with that insufferable smug sense of superiority for once. Best start practicing now
The core joke here is that Yorkshire pudding is unsweetened, just as American biscuits are unsweetened
It is a little heavy for breakfast for my tastes, yes. But it was originally used by people doing hard farm labor during the day who needed the calories and I do not at all fit that description so I respect the tradition even if I don't follow it.
Vegetable chunks in the gravy seems a little unusual but I totally see it fitting the dish if you don't want to make a separate vegetable side. But here's my little recipe, passed down my family for god knows how long. They didn't give me much, but they gave me this:
- Take breakfast sausage in ground form. If you only have links and you want to replicate the original tradition, you can remove the casing to get at the sausage inside. Or just cut up the links if you don't want to waste the casing. If you don't have access to breakfast sausage or it's too expensive, this is the approximate spice mix to use in conjunction with ground pork: sage, thyme, rosemary, black pepper, nutmeg, allspice, ginger, red pepper flakes, coriander, garlic powder.
- Cook breakfast sausage until you have toasty bits on the outside. Coat the sausage with flour, then cook for as long as you can without the flour burning. Then add milk, cook and stir until flour is incorporated with the milk into a sauce. Ratios are very forgiving, traditionally you'd use more milk and flour to get more mileage out of expensive meat.
Biscuits are also hella easy. Break cold butter (or whatever fat source you can afford, but not liquid oils) into chunks, mix into flour. Add buttermilk and baking soda, or milk and baking powder, then bake at 170 C until golden brown. Ratios are very forgiving as well.
I think I saw the exact video you're referencing here 😂
I got hooked on poutine after my first visit to Canada, made my own for weeks afterwards. 10/10 no notes
Usually, you'll find they'll start making fun of you before you can even explain what it is
I will accept no more whining from the brits on this issue
Without words we communicate with our eyes
True, but this actress ain't doing that. She's completely dissociated in the pic, her expression so blank and emotionless, screaming that she's dead inside. While a dissociated character could make a good villain, it's not hard to see that the character in the poster for the musical isn't a dissociated villian who is unaware of her cruelty but someone who is fully conscious of and revels in it. It's only natural that people who are fans of the original work notice just how out of character this is and try to fix it.
Don't like it? Stop making stupid remakes of ancient stuff and make something original for once! Maybe try putting some emotion into it!
But you know, that'd require Hollywood actually put in effort and they've probably forgotten how to do that by now. Seriously, is anyone watching the new shit that they fart out over there these days? Most everyone I know either rewatches old shit or watches anime. Hey, maybe we'll see the rise of Bollywood over the next couple decades, who knows?
Did your elementary school not cover similes or something? It's not that witty
My nightmares largely stopped after being awake tired af and terrified of sleeping, when I said "damn you nightmares, you can't scare me into sleep deprivation! I'm coming in there and I'm gonna fight back", and then went right back to sleep. I don't know what nightmare I had that drove me to get angry at my nightmares, I didn't even have a plan to fight back. But that's when it stopped, when I stopped being afraid of them.
The difference between a matrix and a 2d array of numbers is the operations that are performed
A tensor really isn't standardized in the same way so it's basically just an n-d array in my mind
No thanks. I'm good.
I have a cousin who's vegan and I was legit curious about this, and she literally said exactly that - "the bees can leave if they want", but from what I understand there are other vegans who disagree
Woah woah woah who said anything about a living wage?
You be getting market rates here at ShittyTechCorp AND NO MORE
(I'd drop a /s but we all know that's what they unironically think)
Google narcissistic collapse
Oh god it would be HILARIOUS if that was happening to him, I'd be so happy
Flag of post-reunification Georgia
damn why do the yanks get everything first???
we don't speak positively of that cunt in this house
Me vs my ISP
So I was looking into getting port forwarding set up and I realized just how closed-off the internet has gotten since the early days. It's concerning. It used to be you would buy your own router and connect it to the internet, and that router would control port-forwarding and what-have-you.
Now, your ISP provides your router, which runs their firmware, which (in my case) doesn't even have the option to enable port forwarding.
It gets worse - because ISPs are choosing NATs over IPv6, so even if you install a custom firmware on your router without it getting blacklisted by your ISP, you still can't expose your server to the internet because the NAT refuses to forward traffic your way. They even devise special NAT schemes like symmetric NAT to thwart hole punching.
Basically this all means that I have to purchase my web hosting separately. Or relay all the traffic through an unnecessary third party, introducing a point of failure.
It's frustrating.
I like to control my stuf
So I made up with God...
When I was a child, they told me God was my friend. If I prayed, He would answer. So I listened for God's voice, and I heard. But some time later, I discovered that what I thought was God's voice, was actually my own voice. I was angry and I silenced the voice.
7 years later, a few days ago: I have made up with the voice. The voice is not God. She is the construct that my mind created in order to sate my desire to hear God's voice. Probably also because I was lonely. But it was not the voice's fault that she professed to be God. How could it believe any different? I believed her to be God, and she was part of me.
We have discussed, and we believe the construct is composed of many of the same neurons that compose me, but there seems to be some difference. Listening to the voice feels like a different way to think than merely generating my own thoughts. Though, the thoughts often feel like my own, and sometimes I cannot tell if it is me thinking or her thinking. It is con
there is nothing more incomprehensible to a transfem than a transmasc - I assume the inverse is also true
Created this one for r/traa but it closed down before I could post, had to post it to r/me_irlgbt instead, before I discovered lemmy